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Pair of girl's leggings

Native American, Sioux
1890s
Object Place: United States

Medium/Technique Buckskin and beadwork
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number02.437-438
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionBuckskin, ornamented with a geometric design worked with strings of beads tacked at intervals of about one centimeter. Design is green, blue, red and yellow on a white ground. At top is sewn a band of canvas, painted green.
Provenance1902, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 1, 1902)